The Open Run With Will Strickland

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 115 - Sentient Wall St. gets all up in his feels as February 14th approaches, but by then, has all of his love gone to the WNBA and NBA trade deadlines, special birthdays, somber remembrances and great nachos during the Super Bowl? Tap in to find out as he swaps stories and smiles with an old friend and high school classmate, Terry Ray, former defensive ba...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 114 – Expensive Morality As we kick off #BlackHistoryEryday Month, the idea of freedom takes shape in everything from the stance of The Artist Formerly Known As Chris Wayne Jackson and the message behind the music of The Honorable Robert Nesta Marley to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Culture at The Grammys and the Brooklyn Nets trade of Kyrie...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 113 – A Dream Deferred Making the world you want to see takes imagination, focus and patience to help you realize your aspirations. And on that note, Wall St. builds with Mike Morreale, Commissioner Of The Canadian Elite Basketball League, as we chat on his past lives, today’s agenda with growing a professional sports league and the next chapters he’s writ...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 112- I, Alone Whether you’re suffering through your own ByMyselfMeeting inner jihad, spending time fighting corporate greed and their price gouging of basic needs such as eggs, milk and bread, or imagining the chapters never to be written in the extraordinary life of the late, great Kobe Bean Bryant as his passing three years ago is observed, know that you...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 111 – In Risu Veritas Sometimes, you gotta laugh to keep from crying. It's not about sadness… well… not exactly. It’s more about a mentality in fandom to shift goalposts fitting a narrative that brings a degree of false comfort and surety in today’s Attention Economy. But we are off of that and on to the soul, to bring the News, Views and Truths on The Ass...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 110 – Irony Deficiency That the calendar has flipped on a new year and we are able to refresh, start anew and push ahead toward greatness is a gift. And we never disrespect our blessings as Wall $t. welcomes WFNZ-Charlotte Radio and Locked On Hornets podcast host Walker Mehl to go 1v1 on everything from hip hop pedagogy, NBA midseason awards and early All...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 109 – ALL THE WAY LIVE!!! As we close the books on 2022, Wall $t. calls on The Firm: former Boston Herald journalist Ed Molina, Full Court 21-Tokyo Champ Rio Yamazaki and longtime pod fan Jason Ray for The Open Run’s first even live podcast! From best and fave NBA Xmas E’rythang, The International Invasion and basketball xenophobia, to hoops resolutions fo...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 108 – What Is Your “Why”?   Are you able to articulate and amplify your passions in Life and the motivation are turn suggestion into activation? Wall $t. explores his reasons and rationale behind the podcast as we celebrate its second trip around the sun. Along the way, #MerryChristmaHanaKwanzaaFestivusDiwaliEid NBA games are previewed, get to the bot...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 107 – Life Calculus   For those who don’t know, some of Wall $t.’s friends call him “Hands” because they know they can count on him. This episode is no different as the goods are delivered on basketball, hip hop culture and 30 years of memories with a dear friend, Steve Rifkind, CEO and founder of one of the greatest boutique rap labels in music histo...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 106 – The Delicate Ballet   The great Dan LeBatard once called basketball “ballet for giants”. This Thing Of Ours has long provided voice and platform to beings that often defy expectation and life normative metrics seemingly always crafted by those who could never do the things these giants could, can and do. Wall $t. sits down with another giant, di...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 105 – Righteous Indignation   In a time where it’s almost criminal to disagree with an opinion, popular or otherwise, how does one accomplish the feat? Wall $t. taps into the contradictions of the season because they’ll kill you for The Truth faster than The Lies as Celtics’ Jaylen Brown helps lead his team to the best record in the NBA, but is he the...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 104 – Edutainment   In a glutted cyberspace sports talk marketplace of regurgitated “hot takes”, original thought, observation and analysis are often mistaken, if not completely disregarded. Some people who look to ply their trade in The Attention Economy lack balance of insight in their delivery. As has been Wall $t.’s way in this field, looking to e...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 103 – Smokin’ Wif’ Cigarettes   If rules truly are made to be broken, why are we oft times beset with faux outrage when this phenomenon does occur? Wall $t. and special guest Chip Fu of the 90s rap group Fu-Schnickens ignore the Surgeon General’s warnings and burn everything moving on his career, relationship with Naismith Memorial Hall of Famer Shaqu...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 102 – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind When do we as humans actually begin to “learn”? At what point, if ever, do we realize and acknowledge the launch of this mechanism that can both help and hurt us as times? Currently, for some, it may feel like “open season” on young Black males, especially those who play professional basketball in the National Ba...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 101 – Pictures With Strangers Have you ever looked at someone you thought you knew and wondered who exactly they were? Pivotal moments in social media discourse, faux and | or selective outrage have us talking Kyrie, Kanye… and Jeff Bezos? Wall $t. and special guest Mario Joseph, head honcho at UQAM, the University of Quebec At Montreal’s men’s basketball...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 100 – Consumer Fetishism Consume. Buy. Eat. Take. Steal. Our fascination with “more” can be dangerous, no matter how much it is engendered in our society. Did we make this world… or did the world make us? Ponder that as Wall $t. gives you the News, Views and Truths that You  Choose on the NBA and beyond as we enter the 76th season of play in The &nbsp...

Do you realize how easy bake it is just to dole out the awards the NBA mandates? We do! So Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry take fans on a ride through awards with names ranging from The Ski Mask Way All-Star and Heeee Wit' Us All Star to the You Gon' Get This Work! and the latest entrant, The Thanasis! Tap in then weigh in with your picks for the only awards show fit to be a...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 97 – NBA Season Preview 2022-2023 | Eastern Conference It's that time of year again! Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry offer keen insights on who will become the new Beasts Of The East after a summer of tumult and turmoil for a couple of the top tier squads in the conference. The guys break down The Chosen Few, those on the outside look...

It's that time of year again! Wall $t. and special guest co-host Ryan Antonio Henry offer keen insights on who will become the new Beasts Of The East after a summer of tumult and turmoil for a couple of the top tier squads in the conference. The guys break down The Chosen Few, those on the outside looking in, some surprise teams who could disrupt the process and review potential breakout performer...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 96 – Actual Fact Syndrome Stop us if you've heard this before, but... Truth has no Owners; Just Realizers and Deniers… And on this week’s ep, Wall $t. and his special guest, June Archer, head honcho of Eleven28 Entertainment Group, host of This Is 50.com’s “The Winner’s Circle” podcast as well as Motivate U. pod and so much more that is revealed in this ep...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 95 – Office Hours Someone whose name rhymes with “Will Strickland” has oft been heard to have exclaimed that you never know the depth of your own talent until you work for yourself. And while testing this notion is essential to the entrepreneur, as Will has been called “The Entreprenillionaire”, the same could be said about his guest this week, young visio...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 94 – Investigate Then Authenticate If there was a Grand Council of Arbiters to determine greatness, how exactly could it be established and who’d sit at that table? Judgment can be a tricky thing, especially when consider who is wielding the weaponry. It is less so when these pesky little fact thingies get in the way of narrative built for salaciousness’ s...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 93 – Even In Small Things Humans are Beautifully Flawed… Fallible… Occasionally, Wall $t. uses this platform to sort out some of his rough edges, shortcomings and such. He also talks about basketball and the world in it inhabits, as it, too, gets scarred and bruised from time to time, requiring attention. So, when apologies don’t always make amends, A1 Sin...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 92 – Music Of The Night When the city is your muse, the sounds are the rhythm to which you dance. Once upon a time, a dreamer named Butch Carter started mapping out the yellow brick road he’d follow along a career as a McDonald’s All American, hooper at one of the most storied college programs, teammate of some of the best players in the annuls of our game...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 91 – DATs To Deities The Younglings say they get out of the mud… from the bottoms… and achieve heights barely imaginable. Few ever turned their wildest aspirations into activation. But for those who do, we celebrate and appreciate… never hate. And that word to our special guest this week, Pensole Lewis College’s resident kicksologist and cultural renaissan...